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The Grid's Missing Piece Has Been Sitting in Your Toolshed the Whole Time

Iron-air batteries store energy through controlled reversible rusting, can discharge for 100 hours, and target a cost below $20 per kWh. Form Energy is shipping commercial units and just announced the largest battery deal in history with Xcel Energy and Google. The renewable grid's intermittency problem may have found its answer in the most abundant metal on Earth.

By Dr. Nadia Osei · 4 min read

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AI Is Doing Real Science Now. The Gap Is Getting It Out of the Lab

AI has predicted 2.2 million new crystal structures and is running self-driving labs that work 10 times faster than anything before. The results are real. The bottleneck is not the model. It is the decade-long pipeline between a prediction and a product, and no press release changes that.

By Vera Santos · 4 min read